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This document provides an outline for the course "Advanced Foundation Engineering". The course will cover various topics related to foundation engineering including soil exploration, shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, soil-foundation interaction, reinforced earth, and numerical solutions for beams and plates on elastic foundations. It will discuss advanced theories, design methods, and codal provisions. Example problems will be solved and the course material will be useful for students and practitioners. The course is divided into 7 topics that will cover aspects like bearing capacity, settlements, pile foundations, well foundations, retaining walls, and soil-structure interaction over a total of 38 hours.

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This document provides an outline for the course "Advanced Foundation Engineering". The course will cover various topics related to foundation engineering including soil exploration, shallow and deep foundations, retaining walls, soil-foundation interaction, reinforced earth, and numerical solutions for beams and plates on elastic foundations. It will discuss advanced theories, design methods, and codal provisions. Example problems will be solved and the course material will be useful for students and practitioners. The course is divided into 7 topics that will cover aspects like bearing capacity, settlements, pile foundations, well foundations, retaining walls, and soil-structure interaction over a total of 38 hours.

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NPTEL Syllabus

Advanced Foundation Engineering -


Video course

COURSE OUTLINE

The course "Advanced Foundation Engineering" will cover various aspects of


foundation engineering including soil exploration, details of shallow and deep
NPTEL
foundations, retaining walls. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
The soil-foundation interaction will also be discussed along with the numerical
solution techniques of beams and plates resting on elastic foundation bed.
Civil Engineering
The behavior and design methods of foundation on reinforced earth will be
discussed.

The advanced theories and design of various foundation components will be


discussed in logical way. Pre-requisites:

The earth pressure theories for designing the retaining walls will be discussed. 1. Soil Mechanics (Geotechnical
Engineering I).
The codal provisions of the design of various types of foundation will also be
discussed. 2. Foundation Engg (Geotechnical
Engineering II).
The number of chosen problems will be solved in this course.

The advanced course material will be very useful to undergraduate and post- Additional Reading:
graduate students, teachers and practitioners.
1. Literature on Advanced
foundations Bureau of Indian
COURSE DETAIL Standard codes on foundations.

Coordinators:
Dr. Kousik Deb
Sl. Topic No. of Department of Civil EngineeringIIT
No. Hours Kharagpur

1 Introduction, soil exploration, analysis and 3


interpretation of soil exploration data, estimation
of soil parameters for foundation design.

2 Shallow Foundations : 8

Methods for bearing capacity estimation, total and


differential settlements of footing and raft, code
provisions.

Design of individual footings, strip footing,


combined footing, rigid and flexible mat, buoyancy
raft, basement raft, underpinning.

3 Pile Foundations : 8

Estimation load carrying capacity of single and


pile group under various loading conditions.

Pile load testing (static, dynamic methods and


data interpretation), settlement of pile foundation,
code provisions, design of single pile and pile
groups, and pile caps.
4 Well Foundations : 4

Types, components, construction methods, design


methods (Terzaghi, IS and IRC approaches),
check for stability, base pressure, side pressure
and deflection.

5 Retaining Walls : 6

Types (types of flexible and rigid earth retention


systems: counter fort, gravity, diaphragm walls,
sheet pile walls, soldier piles and lagging).

Support systems for flexible retaining walls (struts,


anchoring), construction methods, stability
calculations, design of flexible and rigid retaining
walls, design of cantilever and anchored sheet
pile walls.

6 Soil-Foundation Interaction : 5

Idealized soil, foundation and interface behavior.

Elastic models of soil behavior; Elastic-plastic and


time dependent behavior of soil.

Beams and plates on elastic foundation;


numerical analysis of beams and plates resting on
elastic foundation.

7 Reinforced Earth : 4

Geotechnical properties of reinforced soil, shallow


foundation on soil with reinforcement, retaining
walls with reinforcements, design considerations.

References:

1. A.P.S. Selvadurai, "Elastic Analysis of Soil-Foundation Interaction",


Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company.

2. Braja M. Das, "Principles of Foundation Engineering", PWS Publishing


Company.

3. Joseph Bowles, "Foundation Analysis and Design", McGraw‐Hill Book


Company.

4. V.N.S. Murthy, "Advanced Foundation Engineering", CBS Publishers and


Distributors.

A joint venture by IISc and IITs, funded by MHRD, Govt of India http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

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